Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Houston Fieldhouse Multi-Purpose Arena
Starting in 2006, Sasaki provided full design services for the renovation of and addition to the Houston Fieldhouse Multi-Purpose Arena at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The Houston Fieldhouse has served as a central part of athletic and recreational life for Rensselaer students and the surrounding community for over 60 years. It is the nation’s third oldest hockey rink and was referred to as “The Madison Square Garden of Upstate New York” in the 1950s and 1960s. The fieldhouse seats 4,780 for RPI’s men’s and women’s hockey games—the largest capacity in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference’s (ECAC)Division I ice hockey league. The fieldhouse has also been a venue for major concerts, commencement ceremonies, intramural hockey, skating clubs, and semi-pro hockey teams, as well as tournaments including the NCAA Frozen Four national championship. Yet the arena and locker room facilities had become outdated and inadequate. Sasaki led the transformative renovation in two phases.
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